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Australian police have declared the knife attack in Sydney, where a bishop and a priest were injured during a church service on Monday, as an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy after the stabbing at Christ the Good Shepherd Church that injured Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and a priest. Both are expected to survive. New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the suspect’s comments pointed to a religious motive for the attack. “We’ll allege there’s a degree of premeditation on the basis that this person has travelled to that location, which is not near his residential addre...
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The search for tranquillity and meditation. This is what has driven monks and hermits since the 9th century to the Abbey of San Benedetto on Mount Subasio, a few kilometres from Assisi in central Italy. Restored several times after the terrible earthquake that struck central Italy in 1997, today it is run by Benedictine nuns who have entrusted its custody to its sole inhabitant: Albero Cisco. Watch the full report by Euronews correspondent Luca Palamara in the player above.
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Tributes continue to pour in for the leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Christian church, Patriarch Neophyte, who passed away on Wednesday. In a statement, the church said he had died as a result of “multiple organ failure” after a long illness. The 78-year-old had been hospitalised with lung disease since last November at the military medical academy in the capital Sofia. Neophyte was the first elected head of the church in the post-Soviet era and sought to restore its reputation tainted by links to the communist secret police. Orthodox Christians make up over 80 per cent of Bulgaria’s nearly 7 mi...
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Located in Italy's culturally rich Emilia-Romagna region, Ravenna offers a fascinating blend of art, churches and historical landmarks. The city's main claim to fame lies in its extraordinary collection of Byzantine mosaics, which adorn its ancient churches and monuments. These intricate works of art, dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries, depict biblical scenes, saints and Byzantine emperors with intricate detail and craftsmanship. The UNESCO-listed Basilica di San Vitale and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia are outstanding examples of Ravenna's mosaic mastery, drawing art enthusiasts world...
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Barcelona’s whimsical Sagrada Familia church is inundated with nearly four million visitors a year. Religious buildings are some of the key tourist attractions in European cities, including St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Westminster Abbey in London and Cologne Cathedral. With enthralling histories and artistic splendours, they have become temples of culture as well as being sacred sites. Here are more art-rich churches in Europe that might not be on your radar which you should consider booking a city break around. Marvel at Byzantine mosaics in RavennaWith Venice cut from cruise ship itineraries...
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Houston (AFP) - Two people including a five-year-old boy were wounded after a woman opened fire at celebrity US pastor Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston, Texas, one of the largest religious venues in the United States, police said Sunday. The woman was armed with a long gun when she entered the non-denominational Christian church with a child just before 2:00 pm (2000 GMT), Houston police chief Troy Finner told a press conference. Arriving at the church, housed in a converted former sports arena which can seat some 16,800 people, she began to fire, Finner said -- but off-duty police officers...
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Smack my Baptist Up! Faith is Massive! Shut Up and Pray! These are my nominees for new rave tunes to be played tonight when Canterbury Cathedral hosts its second night of 90s silent discos. Held on Thursday night in the cathedral, first founded in the Kent city in 597 AD, the silent disco was the first of two back-to-back sellout events. It's part of a series of silent discos taking place in cathedrals and churches around Europe, a spokesperson for the Grade I listed building said the event would be “appropriate and respectful” and “not a rave in the nave”. Eurovision 2024: What’s behind the c...
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When something happens exceedingly rarely, we often say “once in a blue moon.” But we might as well say “once in a chord change on John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP”. Sure, it’s wordy. Maybe that’s why it never stuck. But one thing’s for sure – the musical composition, which began playing in an ancient church in Germany, is played so slowly that any minor chord change, which takes place, well, once in a blue moon, becomes international news. That’s what happened yesterday (Monday 5 February), when a new note began playing in the piece – the first change that’s happened in two years. Here’s what it look...
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Two masked assailants attacked a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during Sunday services, killing one person, Turkish officials have announced. According to a statement posted on X - formerly Twitter - by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, the armed assailants attacked the Santa Maria Church in the Sariyer district at 1140 am local time. He did not specify what kind of weapons were used or whether anyone else was wounded. Yerlikaya also condemned the attack and said authorities are working on capturing the assailants and confirmed that an investigation has been opened. Speaking to reporters, Is...
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By Srijit Das Two photographs are now circulating online with a misleading claim that they show a recent Islamist attack on Christians at a Nigerian church on Christmas Eve. BOOM found that the photos are unrelated to the recent massacre which happened in Nigeria. The widely circulated images are from June, 2022 and originally depict a violence carried out by gunmen at a Catholic church in Nigeria's Owo city. The international news agency Reuters has reported that a prolonged violence took place in Nigeria's central Plateau state, where suspected nomadic herders rampaged through 15 villages on...
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